I have been using VMWare player for some time now on a Windows 7 64 bit machine to run 32-bit XP. There have never been any problems connecting to the internet, but now I need to connect to the local Windows network, and specifically to two Linux backup machines that use samba. I can do this in two stages (backup to host, then backup to Linux m/c's separately), but this is awkward.
I have tried:
1. NAT and bridged network connections. Both connect to the internet, in NAT can ping the samba machines via their ip addresses, but cannot resolve their names. In bridged mode, I can't ping the Linux ip addresses.
2. Tried setting WINS = Yes in samba (down by printer settings ie not as server). No difference.
3. Tried a native XP machine on the network - it sees the whole network including the Linux machines.
4. tried setting up a virtual W7 machine. I behaves more or less similarly to the XP VM.
I am obviously missing something basic, but have spent over a day on this, including searches for answers without finding anything.
Any suggestions gratefully received!